Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio, the Democrats are trying a new kind of radio show: It's Up to You (ABC, Mon. 2 :45 p.m.). Starring National Committeewoman India Edwards, the 15-minute program elbows its way among the soap operas to plug the Democratic ticket. The show features a two-voiced character named Skizo Phrenia, who identifies himself as a split-personality Republican: "My motto is yes. And then again...
Salvation a la Munchausen. The first of them began in 1905 in Budapest. His father was a promoter and would be inventor who soon struck it rich with a "radioactive" soap. His mother was a hysteric who blew hot & cold until little Arthur had emotional chilblains. To make bad worse, Arthur turned out to be unusually short, yet something of a child prodigy too, "admired for my brains and detested for my character by children and teachers alike." He had little home training in the Jewish faith of his fathers, and early in life his belief in a personal...
...What we are celebrating tonight is one more step forward in the intrusion of science into a technical art of long standing and of first importance. We can signalize it by giving fancy names to old procedures. Time was when the soapmaker improved his soap by trial and error procedures. Now we say the manufacturer of detergents progresses by scientific research...
Soapy's old Princeton buddy Stan Backus is a solid Republican, but last week he voiced a kind of pathetic bipartisan concern about the prodigy. "Today, when the class of '33 gets together, we talk about Soap," said Backus. "He's the guy who has done the most and gone the farthest. But I've stopped trying to explain him to my friends. For a while I would stand up for him and make excuses for his actions. But I can't any more. It's strange. We always looked to Soapy for ideals...
...places at once. The Netherlands last week did its best to make the trick possible. When Dutch Prime Minister Willem Drees formed a new government, after a 65-day cabinet crisis, he appointed not one but two Foreign Ministers. No. 1: Johan Beyen, 55, former executive of a soap company and a political independent. No. 2: Career Diplomat Joseph Luns, 41, a member of the Catholic Party. The dual appointment had a political reason (the Catholics were determined to have the Foreign Minister's post), but it also had a practical reason: the job had proved almost too much...